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No scriptwriters are required when it comes to sports. The true stories are routinely dramatic and sensationalist enough. There is no need to jazz them up for wider consumption -- from figure skating's Russian mafia connections, to Lance Armstrong's...

Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery are under pressure to explain why they are working with Ben Johnson's former coach. Jones, a five-time Olympic medalist, and Montgomery, the 100-meter record holder, left their coach, Trevor Graham, last month and...

The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson has failed a drug test administered by the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport, the third time he has tested positive for a banned substance. Johnson was notified about two weeks ago that he'd failed an Oct. 7...

November 16, 1999, Tuesday

The International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body of track and field, said yesterday in Seville, Spain, that a three-member committee would examine a bid for reinstatement by Ben Johnson of Canada.

May 20, 1999, Thursday

Ben Johnson moved a step closer to a return to track yesterday when a legal review said he had grounds to appeal his lifetime ban for doping. An arbitrator in Toronto said procedural errors in Johnson's 1993 lifetime suspension for drug use could...

April 20, 1999, Tuesday

Ben Johnson remains an outsider in track and field. The Canadian sprinter's hopes for one more comeback were dimmed yesterday when an appeals court in Toronto refused to lift his lifetime ban for steroid use.

September 22, 1998, Tuesday

When Ben Johnson shattered the world record for 100 meters at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, an indifferent sprinter named Donovan Bailey celebrated in an Ontario club, saluting a Canadian hero with the same Jamaican roots, the drinks flowing as fast and...

July 31, 1995, Monday

While maintaining his innocence, BEN JOHNSON chose yesterday to quit track rather than appeal the lifetime ban imposed on him by the International Amateur Athletic Federation for failing a drug test a second time. His lawyers presented the outline...

Five years after his humiliation at the Seoul Olympics, where he was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal for using steroids, Ben Johnson was barred for life from track and field today after testing positive for drug use a second time. And, within...

March 6, 1993, Saturday

Ben Johnson, the sprinter who cannot seem to outrun scandal, is in another drug-related bind. As Johnson faced a hearing tomorrow for a positive drug test, Canadian officials worked behind the scenes to persuade their wayward runner to retire before...